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Roosevelt
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Problem Child
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Charlton Heston
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Robert Gavaldón
Never Apologize
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Kawakita
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Dominique Delouche
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William Holden
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Satoshi Kon
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Thorold Dickinson
Program Overview
Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Gaslight
The High Command
Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer
Men of Two Worlds
Next of Kin
The Prime Minister
The Queen of Spades
Secret People
Thorold Dickinson Shorts
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Infernal Machines
Rendez-Vous 2008
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Envisioning Russia
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DOC 2008
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Dickinson’s most beloved project (the making of which was chronicled by Lindsay Anderson in his book Making a Film) was based on a true story about an attempted IRA assassination, transposed by the filmmaker into a story of continental Europe. Valentina Cortese and a very young, vibrant Audrey Hepburn are the daughters of a slain anti-fascist leader, living with their uncle in London. At the 1937 Paris Exposition, they cross paths with Cortese’s former lover (Serge Reggiani), who recruits her through the most deviously subtle means to take part in a plot to kill her father’s murderer. Dickinson’s attempt to make a truly pacifist film, in which both sides of a then-contemporary conflict are shown to be “wrong,” was roundly rejected at the time of its release, not least by the communist party, outraged over what they took to be Dickinson’s political equivocation. Seen outside the contemporary context of a bitterly polarized post-war Europe, Secret People is Dickinson’s most passionate film, and one of his most stirring. Seen in another light, the great British critic and Dickinson champion Raymond Durgnat wrote that the film’s “restatement of the human values and conscience was, in 1952, at the meanest epoch of the Cold War, rather more radical than may now appear.”
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